Richard,
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:41:07PM -0500, Richard Shockey wrote:
My comment said "or" as in one or the other, if you had re read the comment
properly before going snarky. I don't dispute Dublin airport is a useful
transportation hub. I want to know why this particular venue was selected
and what was the criterion used to make the evaluation. That is a simple
question given the legitimate questions many of us are asking.
By mentioning 'major hub' it appeared as if you were concerned about
that as well while in fact this location is an excellant choice from
that perspective: not only is it easy to get to, but it is also
comparatively cheap for many IETF participants.
IMHO it was a bad selection and I think many of us want to make sure it does
NOT happen again.
that really remains to be seen: as many people have mentioned before,
there might actually be some reasonible local food options. In
addition, with a little planning, it should be possible for many of us
to go once or twice to Dublin itself or perhaps stay a day extra. I
admit, not 100% ideal but meetings always have their tradeoffs. In
this case, I certainly see the potential for problems, but on the
other hand, if the connectivity is particularly good, the hotel rooms
a bit better than average and the local restaurant situation a tiny
bit better than what many people expect, one can hardly claim that
this meeting is going to be a disaster. Let's first go there before we
make a judgement that this was a terrible mistake, the data so far
simply doesn't justify that (yet ;-)).
David Kessens
PS anyways, maybe the local/Dublin restaurant scene is really not what we
should be looking for in Ireland: should we not care more
about the local brews ?
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